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33 Powerful And Creative Print Ads That’ll Make You Look Twice

Most print adverts out there are annoying, but given the number of professionals working in the marketing and advertising industries, they’re bound to come up with something fresh and creative sooner or later. We’ve searched the web and collected some of the most creative print ads we could find.

Some of the best ads feature clever tongue-in-cheek jokes that make us laugh, others have clever puns that make us think, and some even make us react emotionally. The Crisis Relief print ad especially excel at this last point. It’s kind of these companies to respect us by appealing to our intellect or sense of humor rather than merely trying to catch our attention with a simple low-cut neckline or flashy colors.

Most of these examples of advertisements don’t just advertise the company or cause behind them; they also make an actual point. So if you don’t understand the angle at first, give it some time and think about it.

Businesses have been trying to cram things down people’s throats for about as long as they’ve existed, but how they wanted to do it weren’t always so sophisticated. Here’s a post we wrote about vintage print advertisements that would have been either banned or denounced by the public if they were published today.

Maybe if more printed ads looked like this, we wouldn’t hate them so much. Take a look!